PHYSICAL AND LITERARY. ^^^ 



we removed; and then laid the aorta 

 bare from its coming out of the heart 

 till near its divifion into the two iliacs, 

 which brought into view a large aneurii^ 

 mal fac, which extended from the dia- 

 phragm to the Oi pubis. 



The upper part of this aneurifmal fac 

 was formed by a dilatation of the coats 

 of the left fide of the aorta, which, at 



firil view, feemed to be dilated from 

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where this veflel firft palTes through the 



diaphragm till fome way below where 



the emulgent artery of the right fide goes 



ofif to the kidney ; though it afterwards 



appeared that the dilatation begun much 



lower, about an inch above the rife of 



the cseliac artery, and extended no fur-^ 



ther than juft below where the right 



emulgent goes off. The diftended coats 



of the artery extended upwards and 



downwards, and towards the left 



fide, fo that this part of the fac which 



ifecmed to be formed by them was full 



four inches long and three inches broad, 



though the length of the aorta, which 



was 



